This week’s Hook provides the full story behind 19-year-old Billy Dean and his fall to his death on the Downtown Mall on September 13th. Though whether it was an accident or intentional on his part is still unknown, Courteney Stuart’s interview with his family provides fairly good evidence that it was accidental.

I dont think the story was implying that he was climbing on the building friday night.

We simply dont know, but if he started climbing up the front face of the building, someone would have surely seen him. Whenever I climb buildings downtown, someone immedietly comes to cheer me on, or insist that I come down. Everyone has an opinion.

Also, there is a STAIRCASE to the roof of that building, I dont see how anyone would climb the face of the building with such an easy route up in back.

<blockquote>On the night of his death, Billy’s grandmother, Dorothy Dean, says the teen had misplaced the key to his third-floor apartment, just above the dance studio something that had happened before. He reportedly told some kids on the Mall, "I know how to get in," and was then seen climbing up the back of the building.

"He had gotten in through a skylight on another occasion," says his father, Terry, who believes Billy thought he could enter an apartment window via the roof, which is approximately 40 feet above the Mall. </blockquote>

Doesn’t that sound like he misplaced his keys and climbed up to get in? I don’t know if this means that is what he was doing when he fell, but it sure reads as if this happened that night at least.

In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #

Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on four six and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #

The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #